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The problem with this line is that unvaccinated children can sicken infants and immuno-compromised children who can’t be inoculated, leaving some disabled or worse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Microplastics, along with ultra-tiny nanoplastics, can kill or severely sicken marine life before entering the food web and ultimately ending up on our plates.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

Scotland driving at Greece's heart in a bid to sicken them again after sickening them at Hampden earlier in the group.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

One would think the viruses and bacteria that have tormented humanity since time immemorial would never find a friend in the species — human beings — they so routinely sicken and kill.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2025

Yet Leeuwenhoek never had the faintest suspicion that some of his "animalcules" caused humans to sicken and to die.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Influenza, or flu, sickens millions of people across the globe each year and can lead to severe illness and death.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024

In the U.S. alone, the bug sickens thousands and kills hundreds every year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

“It’s shameful. It’s sickens you to your core.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

And that are media continues to ignore/dismiss a very obvious reality sickens me.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2023

It sickens me to think that such an evil man can feel pity.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

"I am appalled and sickened by Brand's actions and have co-operated fully and voluntarily with the investigation and endeavoured to assist as best I can," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The resulting haze has sickened hundreds of thousands in Indonesia and reached as far as Malaysia, Singapore and East Timor.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

As the days went on, the smell worsened, drawing swarms of flies and rats to the neighborhood, where they pestered and sickened locals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The smell sickened response workers who had to take breaks outside, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Indonesia experiences fires every dry season, but this year's blazes have been particularly severe, sickening hundreds of thousands of people locally and spiking air pollution in neighbouring countries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The cyclospora outbreak has become the nation’s largest of its kind, sickening thousands of people.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

Despite the uptick, officials say California is not included in the cyclosporiasis outbreak that’s hit 15 states, sickening tens of thousands of people with prolonged bouts of diarrhea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

And I would be living within walking distance of a sickening number of farmers markets.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

With a sickening crunch I landed on the ledge.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff